Fake

This is not what it looks like. The photograph was taken in 1975 in Newton-le-Willows just before or after (I can't remember, only in November that year I began my diary) one of my cousins graduated at Hull University. It was too tempting not to try if the gown would fit me. Wearing a gown on your graduation ceremony was unheard of in Dutch universities, at least in those days. I never wore one although I gained two bachelor's degrees and two master's. My last master I got at Utrecht University with the Dutch historian Maarten van Rossem, who became famous in the USA taking part in the last presidential election campaign with the slogan 'Van Rossem for President.'